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Evolution of human skin and skin pigmentation: Study of the origin, evolution, and consequences of a functionally naked and pigmented integument in humans, drawing upon anatomical, physiological, paleontological, epidemiological, and environmental data. Related to this is research on the evolution of vitamin D requirements and metabolism in relation to human migrations and urbanization.

Primate evolution, with emphasis on the evolution of primate lineages in relation to environmental change: Illumination of the history of adaptation, and the relationship between environmental change and the evolution of life histories and diet in Old World primate lineages, especially monkeys, apes, and humans. Studies of the evolution and biogeography of Old World monkeys drawing upon field and laboratory work.

Mammalian paleoecology in the late Tertiary and Quaternary: Examination of the history of mammalian herbivores – especially primates – in relation to changes in local and global environments, and the differential evolution of brains, jaws, teeth, guts, and hooves in post-Miocene environments.

Evolution of hominid bipedalism: Concentration on the identification of the behaviors which triggered the initial transition to bipedal posture and locomotion in the human lineage, with particular reference to the role of bipedal displays and the importance of physical stature.

Jablonski, N.G. (1998) The evolution of the doucs and snub-nosed monkeys and the question of the phyletic unity of the odd-nosed colobines. In N. G. Jablonski (Ed.), The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys (pp. 13-52). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.

Jablonski, N.G. (1994) Convergent evolution in the dentitions of grazing macropodine marsupials and the grass-eating cercopithecine primate Theropithecus gelada. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 77, 37-43.